Charles I Execution question
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He was basically ruling like a tyrant. Not an evil psychopath tyrant but he was ignoring and then banned parliament, taking unfair taxes and all of that. Then there was his marriage, trying first to marry a spanish princess, then he married a french one. He and his wife were catholic, not protestant. So yeah, he was overthrown in the civil war, arrested, and then comes his trial, he refuses to plead, stating devine right and that the court can't try a monarch, and looks as though he's winning the court case when they sentence him anyway.
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Mostly it was religious based. Charles had seen the way the Spanish Emperor ruled like a God while in Spain. He has left and gone to Spain uninvited to win the hand of the Princess in a mostly political move. However, they basically held him prisoner until he agreed to marry the princess, something he then refused to do when back in England.
Charles was swayed by the beauty and opulence of the Catholic religion in Spain at that time. And Spain's ultimate goal was to convert him. If he converted in secret it is unknown. At the time in the UK the Puritan religion was very prominent. When he became King he started to implement more Catholic styling, for instance he issued new prayer books with fancy writing and emblems. This to the Puritans did not go down well. He then viewed parliament as useless because he wanted to rule absolutely like the Spanish Emperor and so he banned them.
Oliver Cromwell then gathered forces, there was a civil war and he won. Charles was sentenced to death for treason, even though he was the King. He wore two shirts at his execution because it was cold and he did not want his shivering to be mistaken for fear. He was beheaded and his head went on to have several unusual adventures, including I believe a curiosity at a dinner party...
Charles was swayed by the beauty and opulence of the Catholic religion in Spain at that time. And Spain's ultimate goal was to convert him. If he converted in secret it is unknown. At the time in the UK the Puritan religion was very prominent. When he became King he started to implement more Catholic styling, for instance he issued new prayer books with fancy writing and emblems. This to the Puritans did not go down well. He then viewed parliament as useless because he wanted to rule absolutely like the Spanish Emperor and so he banned them.
Oliver Cromwell then gathered forces, there was a civil war and he won. Charles was sentenced to death for treason, even though he was the King. He wore two shirts at his execution because it was cold and he did not want his shivering to be mistaken for fear. He was beheaded and his head went on to have several unusual adventures, including I believe a curiosity at a dinner party...
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He was very stubborn because he held his father's belief in the Divine Right of Kings, Cromwell and the others were willing to let him live if only he would've shared some of his power to Parliament but he didn't, if only he and James followed Elizabeth I's style of reigning (popular sovereignty) he wouldn't have lost his head, not to mention his Queen Henrietta was very unpopular because she was a Catholic in a Protestant country.